VOORHEES, N.J. — Steve Mason looked around the Flyers locker room, probably stole a glance into a mirror somewhere there and reached one positive conclusion: He has seen the enemy and it is everywhere.

“We’ve been our own worst enemies,” the Flyers goaltender concluded Sunday. “The reason we haven’t had success is because we haven’t been working hard enough. When you’re playing against the teams we have been recently, teams that are fighting for playoff spots and within our own division and things like that, we shouldn’t have trouble getting up for games like that. We just haven’t done a good enough job. The only good thing is, we have a solution — it’s hard work with a good start.”

So despite a personal six-game stretch he’d largely like to forget, and a current 2-5-2 skid that has put the Flyers back into nervous mode, Mason figures the best thing for all of them is to forget and start over. It’s unknown whether Mason or Ray Emery will be in net, but a Tuesday night test at home against the Detroit Red Wings might be a good place to restart.

“There have been a couple of bad bounces and a couple of goals that I would have liked to have stopped,” said Mason, 1-3-1 (with a no-decision) with a 4.57 goals-against average and .846 saves percentage over his last six outings. “It’s just getting back to making the saves that I need to (make). I’ve been working hard to find a solution and the only way I’m going to get out of this little funk is to continue to work hard.”

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Mason was hot in November and December to the point of being on the fringe of conversations about his credentials as one of Team Canada’s goalies for the Olympic tournament. By the time the team was announced Jan. 7, Mason hadn’t been part of the conversation for some time. Of course, he’s been trying to see to higher career priorities.

“I’m just disappointed at not being able to play well enough to get the wins,” Mason said. “I’d like to improve everything. Now, when you’re not having success, it’s easy to overthink things. I’m trying not to do that.”

Mason indicated the packed schedule ahead of the Olympics has at least partially impacted him, since it has cut into practice time, which he sees as personally important.

“Whenever we do have the opportunity to practice, I want to get better,” he said. “Unfortunately, we haven’t had a whole lot of that time.”

There’s also little doubt that the Flyers’ sagging defensive efforts of late have eaten into the performances of goalies Mason and Emery.

“It seems like we’ve been hemmed in our own end a lot,” Mason said. “... When we get running around in our own end, that’s when we get in trouble. We’ve got to shore up that part of our game, too.”

Recognizing that, coach Craig Berube called a practice Sunday, the same day as the Flyers Wives Fight For Lives Carnival. Berube said he didn’t remember practicing on Carnival days when he was a Flyers player, but then, they didn’t have scheduled days off as part of the collective bargaining agreement back then, either.

The Flyers were scheduled to have a day away from the practice rink Monday. So Berube spent plenty of time before the Carnival reminding his players of what it had taken for them to recover from a terrible season and get back into the playoff hunt.

“Everyone has to get better,” said Berube, including Mason in that topic. “There are parts of (Mason’s) game that, like our team, that look really good. Things go wrong or something happens, and the confidence level drops.”

So now it’ll be an all-out group effort to try to restore it.

“The frustrating part is we know that we can be a good hockey club, we’re just not putting everything together right now,” Mason said. “But the way that we’re structured, we have to have everybody on the same page playing their roles night in and night out, because when you have passengers one night and a different passenger another night, we’re not going to be a successful hockey club. The only time we’re going to be successful is when we have everybody playing to their capabilities. We have to get back to that.

“We’ve got to play better or else we’re going to be trying to claw our way back for the rest of the year.”

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NOTES: Scott Hartnell told Comcast SportsNet he will have his foot re-evaluated today by a doctor. Hartnell has felt pain there since blocking a shot about two weeks ago. He has occasionally worn a walking boot off the ice. ... Zac Rinaldo was a full participant in practice and seems to progressing nicely with his high ankle sprain. He said he feels good, “but I’m going day to day.” ... Having lost four straight games, the Flyers don’t have it any easier coming up. They have the Red Wings Tuesday, at Anaheim Thursday, at Los Angeles Saturday, at San Jose Monday and back for home games against Colorado and Calgary before finally hitting the Olympic break. “It’s a huge dogfight right now from fourth all the way to 12th,” Wayne Simmonds said. “You lose a game you’ll be out, you win a game you can jump two spots. So you’ve got to really bear down.”